Literary Analysis Of 'Soldiers Send Message Home'

World War Two was an unexpected war to United States and its people. The Attack on Pearl Harbor forced United States to abandon isolationism and to declare war to Axis Power. Even people pleased the great victory and the progressive technology, but the enormous number of death was a horrendous truth behind the victory. Thousands of Americans received the drafts and attended the military service. The soldiers stepped in the foreign land for protecting their country, but some of them left their young life in the foreign land. Through American soldier’s letter, Document, “Soldiers Send Message Home, revealed the difficulties and pain that soldiers faced in World War Two.

The document, “Soldiers Send Message Home”, was a composition of five letters which are written by Irving Strobing, John Conroy, Allen Spach, James McMahon, and David Mark Olds in the years between 1942 and 1945. The five authors are the U.S. soldiers who fought in the World War Two. In the letters, they describe their experience in World War Two, their situations and their loves to their parents and relatives which were in home front.

One of the two difficulties was lacking supplies, from foods and

Civilians sustained the financial loss, and relatives’ death and soldiers gained pains and exhaustions. Behind the praise of the victory, and shiny medal, there were uncountable bloody body laid on the ground and thousands of lives never met their loves. The document, “Soldiers Send Message Home”, presented the braveness in battling enemy, insistence in dilemma, unwillingness in leaving the world, and quietness in coming home. The document aroused us to think deeply about the survival veteran and to care about their lives. From reading the document, we should remember the cost in the war and respect the lives that had gone. Moreover, we shall cooperate together and keep the world peace, so the deaths are not